Lehigh teen jailed for letting tot smoke pot

A Lehigh Acres teen was jailed after deputies said she let a toddler smoke marijuana multiple times.

Katelyn Woldridge, 14, faces a charge of child cruelty and another charge of violating probation for criminal mischief.

Deputies were investigating Woldridge's possible connection to a robbery suspect when they searched her cell phone, finding videos and photos of Woldridge with a toddler on her lap, allowing him to smoke what appeared to be a marijuana cigarette.

"It's heartbreaking because I have children of my own,” said Cesar Torres of Lehigh Acres. “I'm a father of four myself [and] I can never imagine anything like that going on."

The January video showed the toddler inhale, then exhale "without coughing, choking or any other hesitation" as Woldridge was seen laughing in the background, LCSO said. She also on that same day posted a photo on Snapchat of the toddler with a rolled cigarette in his mouth and the caption of "he hit that bihh."

"You hear these types of stuff take place way too often,” Torres said. “I don't know what's going on nowadays but everyone has to keep their kids close."

In one video dated in December, Woldridge asks the toddler, "Are you high, baby?" and the toddler answered, "Yeah." She posted on Snapchat that same day a photo of the toddler with a rolled unlit cigarette in his mouth and a caption of "pot head babyy," the report states.

"It's a shame,” said Lehigh Acres resident Karen Gramlich.

Captions placed on the photos led to her arrest. The toddler was identified as being Woldridge's nephew.

“In today's day and age, it's hard to raise a child and [when] your own family member exposes a family member, a child that is only 20 months old, to be exposed to that... it's a shame," Gramlich said.

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